Sentence examples for in which devotees from inspiring English sources

Through some very striking pictures, this book brings out the sanctity in which devotees hold trees and the central role of nature in religious preaching and practices.

Before the Tigers left in 1999, a booster club sponsored two group hugs in which devotees linked arms and gave the stadium a squeeze.

Instead, Dr Clements said teachers of TM and the maharishi's more advanced TM-Sidhi programme, in which devotees learn to use yoga to "levitate", were being encouraged to take teaching positions in South Africa and at the Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa, a campus built on Vedic architectural principles that is home to around 2,000 TM devotees.

Its Web site has a page called "Our Wish List," in which devotees are asked for everything from movie stills and props to vintage Christmas ornaments from the 1920s.

Church officials are well aware of high profile criminal cases in which devotees of the skeleton saint have committed abominable crimes in the name of Saint Death.

Aarti is a ritual in which devotees sing a devotional song in praise of the deity, while circling a large plate made of silver around a statue or idol of the god or goddess.

Puig's characteristic virtuosity has not failed him in this English-language experiment, which devotees of psychological fiction will no doubt appreciate; but the novel has a pared-down and displaced quality". "[Josemar is] rather less inventive than some of the author's previous characters..

Thus begins Chris Jones's profile of Hugh Hefner in the April issue of Esquire, which devotees of Jones have probably devoured already, and everyone else probably should.

Then there is the "telephone effect," in which diet devotees extol the virtues of their current favorite and listeners start thinking, "If it worked for them, it should work for me". Few people wait a year to see whether, in the long term, a diet succeeds in keeping weight off.

But in recent years the church, founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, has spawned a cottage industry of journalistic exposes and jaw-dropping memoirs in which former devotees allege abusive, cult-like behavior and outlandish beliefs.

During religious rites, believers sometimes enter a trancelike state in which the devotee may eat and drink, perform stylized dances, give supernaturally inspired advice to people, or perform medical cures or special physical feats; these acts exhibit the incarnate presence of the lwa within the entranced devotee.